Definitely. Karwana Galicia was a Maltese investigative journalist and blogger who spent her life fighting for truth, justice and decency in a country overrun by corruption. But on October sixteen, twenty seventeen, she was assassinated. Eric Crooks everywhere you look. Now the situation is desperate.
Malta is a tourist paradise, but underneath its extraordinary beauty, there are some dark, dark shadows. This is a place where dark power and dark money likes to hang out. And if you try and tell truth to that dark money and that dark part, if you're a journalist, it can be a very dangerous place. Indeed, there were a sleep in their own beds and somebody piled rubber tires at the back of the house and set them alight.
These are five car bombs within the space of a year, and thing was done about it.
I was shaking.
It was a mixture of anger and fear from iHeart podcasts, Topic studios and Vespucci. This is Crooks everywhere. My name is Manuel Delia, former political operative turn journalist.
I'm John Sweeney, a former BBC journalist and investigative reporter. Together we unravel a web of deception, exposing the dangerous forces at play in Malta. I need to be careful how to word this, but he definitely uses contacts in governments. That was the mindset.
Once I have the money, once I'm so rich, i am untouchabil. It's not just about solving a murder, but I'm pecking the most up to date information that exposes the dangerous intermingling of politics and organized crime in Martime, A story that transcends borders, echoing the challenges faced by democracies worldwide.
This is a story that has lessons for every country where power and money use crime to settle scores. And that's why this story matters whether your Maltese or not.
This is the story of how my home, a smaller European democracy, came to be a place where the criminals set the rules, where crime and politics merge, a place where some people can literally get away with murder. Crooks everywhere Starting September twenty fifth on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.